Before dawn, they returned to South Sea City. As soon as they got back to the hotel, Xiao Ning was already waiting in the lobby. She seemed like a female warrior, having waited in the lobby all night.

"Mr. Ye, you're back, please proceed upstairs." Xiao Ning gestured, and immediately a woman came over, originally to help with luggage, but since Ye Fan and the others came empty-handed, their task turned into helping pave the way for them.

After entering the elevator, Xiao Ning said, "My lady said that Mr. Ye will definitely come back tonight, and asked me to wait here. Is there anything else you need?"

"No need to trouble yourself, once we enter the room, don't disturb us."

With the Sky Sea Elixir in hand, Ye Fan intended to find a quiet place at the hotel to use it to heal Li Zhaojun's injuries.

Upon entering the room, even someone like Wu Ding, who loved causing trouble, didn't come to disturb Ye Fan. Ye Fan and Li Zhaojun sat cross-legged, with Ye Fan sitting behind her. First, he condensed the Sky Sea Elixir within his own body, then transferred the spiritual energy formed by the elixir into Li Zhaojun's body, using his Pure Yang spiritual energy from Nine Yang Divine Skill to unblock the meridians that were closed due to her injuries, gradually restoring her vitality.

After dozens of cycles, Li Zhaojun's forehead gradually began to sweat, her skin turned red, and finally returned to normal. She couldn't support herself anymore and fainted into Ye Fan's arms.

Holding the jade-like beauty, Ye Fan felt a sense of peace in his heart.

At this moment, Wu Ding came in. She had been in the adjacent room, using her spiritual sense to observe. She smiled slightly and said, "It only took three Sky Sea Elixirs to improve this girl's condition. Looks like you plan to reserve all the Sky Sea Elixirs for her?"

"Yes." Ye Fan placed Li Zhaojun on the rustic bed, covered her with a quilt, and after looking at her peaceful sleeping face, he stood up and said, "As long as Zhao Jun can recover, it's all worth it."

Wu Ding sighed deeply and said, "You really are silly, spending so much effort to obtain a few elixirs, originally for your future ascension, isn't it beneficial? But never mind, since you don't want to be an immortal, you just want to live a life envied by mandarin ducks rather than immortals with this girl?"

As she spoke, Wu Ding moved her hand, and a dark shadow resembling a bug crawled in from behind, which upon careful inspection, was the robed woman they brought from the seabed.

"What's your name, young girl?" Wu Ding said with a teasing tone.

"In response to the respected one's question, the young girl's name is Jiang Ting, and my Taoist name in Ming Yuan Sect is Wu Bei." The robed woman replied hastily.

Wu Ding laughed, "Oh, you're also in the 'Wu' generation, like me, so should I call you Junior Sister? Hmm, young girl?"

"No, no, how dare the young girl be peers with the respected one, you are a senior, please don't take offense to this ignorant little girl. The young girl will surely remember your kindness in the future..." Jiang Ting regretted deeply, thinking that Ming Yuan Sect was one of the three major sects and she as the sect master's prized disciple could act arrogantly. Who would've known that Ming Yuan Sect was nothing in the eyes of these people present.

Wu Ding shook her head, "I, myself, am most magnanimous, but occasionally I can be petty. You said earlier you wanted me to be your stool to sit on, let's see if you have the ability to sit on me."

"How dare the young girl act rashly? It should be the young girl's place to be a stool for the respected one to rest on..."

Jiang Ting, being the epitome of spinelessness, knew she was no more than an ant in Wu Ding's eyes, disregarded her identity altogether, and crawled to Wu Ding's front, straightened her back, and said, "Respected one, please sit."

As Wu Ding was about to sit, Ye Fan said, "Senior Sister, isn't this inappropriate?"

"What's inappropriate, is Junior Brother feeling soft-hearted?" Angry and embarrassed, Wu Ding sat down, only to use 'Thousand Pounds', pushing Jiang Ting entirely onto the ground, "Is this all your strength, wanting to serve as my stool?"

"Yes, yes, the respected one is right, the young girl will immediately adjust..."

Ye Fan was speechless, and at this point, he noticed someone coming up the elevator. He went to the door, opened it, and saw Han Qing'er, whom he had seen before.

"Mr. Ye, all of you esteemed ones are here?" Han Qing'er glanced inside the room, saw Jiang Ting under Wu Ding, displayed a cold smile, but solemnly greeted Ye Fan, and said, "Mr. Ye, would you come downstairs to speak?"

Ye Fan intended to talk to Han Qing'er about the Copper Bell protective charm she had, nodded, and said to Wu Ding, "Senior Sister, please take good care of Zhao Jun."

Wu Ding grumbled, "Go, I won't bully her!"

Han Qing'er personally led the way, bringing Ye Fan to the sixth floor, saying, "This is where I usually reside. There is spiritual energy protection all around to ensure that those masters won't detect my presence."

Ye Fan sensed the surroundings and indeed, there were materials that could absorb some spiritual energy, but this only guarded against cultivators at the Foundation Establishment Stage. Even those at the Golden Core Stage could easily penetrate this barrier to find Han Qing'er's presence.

"Mr. Ye may not know how hard it has been for me to hide all these years. People from Ming Yuan Sect have come to South Sea City several times. If they found me, being ripped apart by them would be considered light. I might be tortured until I wish for death but am unable to die." Han Qing'er said sadly, looking at Ye Fan with pitiful eyes, "Can Mr. Ye understand how I feel?"

There was obviously an implied meaning to her words, Ye Fan said coldly, "Miss Han, what do you want?"

"I want to exchange a person with Mr. Ye." Han Qing'er's eyes immediately filled with a murderous aura, "The woman Mr. Ye brought here—she was the one who framed me in front of my master, claiming I conspired with outsiders to betray Ming Yuan Sect. Without distinguishing right from wrong, my master locked me in the Ku Chan Monastery. That same day, I stole my master's Copper Bell protective charm, fled down the mountain, and returned to the mortal world... Luckily, my family, the Han family, left me a vast enterprise. Coincidentally, my father and brother passed away at that time..."

Ye Fan suddenly recalled a report from a few years back, saying that the Han family head and eldest young master of South Sea City died of sudden causes overnight, it was said they were attacked by thieves, and the culprit has never been found.

Now it's obvious, it was Han Qing'er who killed them to inherit the family business.

"Did you kill them?" Ye Fan said coldly.

"I didn't kill them; they wanted to kill me. Fearing revenge from Ming Yuan Sect, they planned to capture me as soon as I returned, intending to send me back to the sect... But unfortunately, they overestimated themselves..."

Ye Fan thought to himself, this woman will stop at nothing to achieve her goals. After all this talk, it was still her who killed them, but she felt everything she did was justified, even killing her father and brother because they wronged her first.

"Don't misunderstand, Mr. Ye, actually, I'm not a cold-blooded person. I have a younger brother studying in Europe, and we have always shared a good relationship..."

The reason she spared her brother was that he posed no threat to her inheritance, while her father and brother did, so they were eliminated.

This woman acts ruthlessly and is extremely utilitarian.

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